Horace Bell

Horace Bell (17 June 1839 – 10 April 1903) was an English civil engineer. As his career progressed he also became increasingly prolific as an author.

He wrote several pamphlets and books on railways policy, later also producing lengthy pamphlets on Economics and on Governance which were used as teaching material in government schools.

Life Provenance and education Horace Bell was born the son of a London merchant, George Bell and his wife, Frances. He was christened at St Pancras Old Church in London. The boy was educated in Louth in Lincolnshire and overseas, in France. The marriage produced nine recorded children, although five of these would predecease their father. Possibly more unexpected were his primers on basic economics, "The Laws of Wealth" (first published 1883) and on government "The Government of India: a Primer" (3rd edition, 1893), both of which were subsequently used as teaching material in Indian state schools.